Holographic characteristics of organo-metallic compound-doped PQ: PMMA photopolymers

Yi-Nan Hsiao; Wha Tzong Whang; Shiuan-Huei Lin; Ken Yuh Hsu

doi:10.1117/12.560426

22 October 2004 Holographic characteristics of organo-metallic compound-doped PQ: PMMA photopolymers

Yi-Nan Hsiao, Wha Tzong Whang, Shiuan-Huei Lin, Ken Yuh Hsu

Proceedings Volume 5560, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications X; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560426
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Photopolymers have been applied widely in optical devices for communications, displays, bio-sensing, and data storage. The advantages of this material are easy to synthesize, high refractive index change, high sensitivity and good optical quality. Recently, we have investigated on the syntheses and analysis of 9,10-PhenanthreneQuinone doped Poly(MethylMethAcrylate) (PQ:PMMA) photopolymer. This material can be fabricated with large dimensions and with thickness in the range of several-centimeters. Experiments show that the material shrinkage is negligible after optical exposure such that our doped photopolymer is attractive for volume holographic applications. However, comparing with other photopolymers, our PQ:PMMA material has a drawback of lower sensitivity (~10 mW/cm²). In this presentation, we demonstrate that by adding organo-metallic compound (Zinc MethylAcrylate, ZnMA) into the PQ:PMMA photopolymer, we succeeded in reducing response time and increasing holographic diffraction efficiency of the material. We report the fabrication and experimental investigation of dye-doped photopolymer, and discuss their application for data storage.

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Yi-Nan Hsiao, Wha Tzong Whang, Shiuan-Huei Lin, and Ken Yuh Hsu "Holographic characteristics of organo-metallic compound-doped PQ: PMMA photopolymers", Proc. SPIE 5560, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications X, (22 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560426

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